[quote]101airborne wrote:
I saw the movie tonight. Excellent film, however I wouldn’t consider it a horror movie. Can anyone trace the visual of his wife burning by fire to past experiences he had? I’m trying to figure out if it was symbolic for something else.[/quote]
His wife was supposedly killed in a fire started by latice.
Anyway Bonez is close. I believe they brought him back to reality, but he chose the labotomy because he didnt want to regress again.
btw- how was it a twist? Probably within 20 mins I had guessed it was likely, but figured, nah that would be too easy
This was a very philosophical movie. In the end, I believe that Leo knew that he was who he was in the beginning of the movie, but also knew that he was unable to escape their (the doctors on the islands) deception of reality. This has all the makings of an “evil genius” theory which was talked about by Descartes who claimed that what if reality as we know it is fake, and we are actually all being deceived by an evil genius. This movie represented that in the full IMO. Sorry to get all philosophical haha.
BTW pet peeve but I hate you guys all calling him “latice”, his name was Laeddis.
I was disappointed. I expected it to be creepier and I found it to be very predictable. I agree with Bonez’ conclusion of the ending. He knew exactly what he was doing and simply didn’t want to remember his past.
Was the storm on the island even real? If I recall correctly, the island was a mess after the storm, but in the last scene when they are sitting outside the place looks perfect. Could the storm have been a hallucination Teddy was having? Or were they just trying to make the setting reflect Teddy’s state of mind, so they wanted the island to look bright and peaceful to reflect his clarity in the end?
Did some of you even watch the movie?
I know his wife supposedly died by fire, but everything in the movie was symbolic for something else-- past experiences. I’m wondering why he didn’t imagine that his wife died by gunshot since everyone else’s death was accurate. Why the fire?
I really enjoyed the movie but like Jehova I had a pretty good idea of what was going on reasonably early on. Side note: Dicaprio is one hell of an actor. Not that there was anything extraordinary about this performance, but looking back, the last few movies I’ve seen with him as the lead have all been dynamite. Great movie.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
I really enjoyed the movie but like Jehova I had a pretty good idea of what was going on reasonably early on. Side note: Dicaprio is one hell of an actor. Not that there was anything extraordinary about this performance, but looking back, the last few movies I’ve seen with him as the lead have all been dynamite. Great movie.[/quote]
It’s true. I fucking hated him back in the Titanic days…but ever since The Island he started making some quality movies i.e. Blood Diamond, The Departed etc.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Did some of you even watch the movie?[/quote]
Rofl…yeah I thought the same thing when I read Chiron’s post.
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
I really enjoyed the movie but like Jehova I had a pretty good idea of what was going on reasonably early on. Side note: Dicaprio is one hell of an actor. Not that there was anything extraordinary about this performance, but looking back, the last few movies I’ve seen with him as the lead have all been dynamite. Great movie.[/quote]
It’s true. I fucking hated him back in the Titanic days…but ever since The Island he started making some quality movies i.e. Blood Diamond, The Departed etc.[/quote]
I’ve never actually seen Titanic all the way through but did see the Romeo and Juliet remake and that was around the same time and it was terrible. But, everything I’ve seen him in in probably the last 10 years or so has been great. The guy has serious talent.
[quote]101airborne wrote:
I know his wife supposedly died by fire, but everything in the movie was symbolic for something else-- past experiences. I’m wondering why he didn’t imagine that his wife died by gunshot since everyone else’s death was accurate. Why the fire? [/quote]
You could see the blood pouring out from the gunshot when he dreamed.
So she didn’t die by fire it was him shooting her after he found out she killed their kids.
He was crazy he did kill his wife, he did burn the house down. In the end he defiantly was sane, but didn’t want to live knowing he killed his wife and his children.
Killed his children? Really? I bet thats what allot of you were gonna say, but think about it… He was always to drunk to realize that his wife was going on the deep end… and she finally cracked and killed their children. If he didn’t spend so much time being drunk he could have got her help, and his children would still be alive. Thats why he went crazy, because he could not live with himself knowing it was all his fault.
What also stuck out to me was in the beginning when he got on the island everyone was mean mugging him (they’re tired of doing this over and over) and when they were asked to remove their guns, his “partner” had a hard time getting his gun holster off showing his inexperience with guns.
Thanks Liv92, that’s the connection I was looking for. He thought his wife was killed by fire because after he killed her he burned the house down.
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Did some of you even watch the movie?[/quote]
Rofl…yeah I thought the same thing when I read Chiron’s post. [/quote]
I just want to know the reason why the island looked perfect the day after a storm ravaged the island… I guess I shouldn’t think too far into it, because it’s just a movie.
Just wanted to say that I LOVE IT when movies are advertised as being an entirely different story than they actually are. I would so much rather walk into a movie completely deceived, thinking I know what’s going on and figuring out I am wrong a little later. Makes movies much more entertaining to me (even though the characyer buildup did seem a litte overkill for the 1st hour)
[quote]Chiron01 wrote:
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Did some of you even watch the movie?[/quote]
Rofl…yeah I thought the same thing when I read Chiron’s post. [/quote]
I just want to know the reason why the island looked perfect the day after a storm ravaged the island… I guess I shouldn’t think too far into it, because it’s just a movie.[/quote]
B/C there was NO storm, fuck!
I liked the movie. I am in full agreement with Bonez about interpreting the end of this film.